by Kathi Leiden | Oct 23, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
Forget solar panels. Inventor Joseph Cory has designed a way to grab energy right out of the sky using solar helium balloons and a helium tank. Cory is a multi-award winning architect and founder of Geotectura, which focuses on solving environmental and social...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 30, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
We may have just found water on Mars, but will that be the planet we go to? NASA has wild plans for exploring Venus using a manned helium airship. Closer, warmer neighbor Our nearest neighbor, Venus, is about 25 million miles away from Earth compared to Mars at 34...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 29, 2015 | Helium, Helium Stunts, Helium Uses
We’re saying it: This is perhaps the most beautiful helium balloon art in the history of the world. Bruno Ribeiro (also known as Nohist) is an audiovisual artist who has spent his last six years creating new, almost hallucinogenic artworks that might just be...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 23, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
Netflix processes over a billion streaming hours per month to 48 million viewers. To keep those videos playing, they’ve put their trust in helium HDDs. To be able to instantly watch a movie or television show out of thin air, whenever we feel like it, and on any...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 22, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
You know we are advocates against inhaling helium, but in a controlled medical environment, inhaling helium can actually help detect early lung damage. Let’s get this out of the way first: Do not ever inhale helium. We know, no one has ever told you this, but...